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Tried favourites cookery book

1909

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Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Omnibus Pudding. i lb. Flour, { lb. Suet, i teaspoonful Salt, 2 oz. Sugar, \ lb. Sultanas, 2 oz. Treacle✪ Omnibus Pudding. Mix all with sufficient milk to make rather thin batter, about ^ pint. Steam 2^ hours. Orange Pudding. Peel and cut 5 oranges into slices ; take out all the seeds, and pour over them | lb. sugar. Make a paste with 1 tablespoonful of cornflour or arrowroot and a little cold milk. Beat the yolks of 2 eggs well, and stir them with the cornflour paste into a pint of boiling milk✪ Orange Pudding. Simmer till it thickens, then pour over the fruit. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth with a tablespoonful of sugar, spread over the top of the pudding, and harden for a few minutes in the oven. Overtown Pudding. i lb. crumbled Biscuit or Bread Crumbs, 1 tablespoouful Castor Sugar, 2 Eggs, rather more than i gill Milk, and teaspoonful Vanilla. ✪ Overtown Pudding Mix dry ingredients, add well-beaten eggs, milk, and vanilla. Cover baking tin with short crust ; decorate edges with leaves or stars; fill centre with a thin layer of jam, then cover with custard and bake. Rich Pancakes (1). 6 oz. Flour, 4 Eggs, tiny pinch Salt, Vanilla Essence✪ Rich Pancakes. Break the eggs separately into the flour, and when these are well mixed add as much milk and cream as makes very thin smooth batter Add 8 drops vanilla essence. Put a nut of butter in omelet pan, and when hot drop in about 2 tablespoonfuls of mixture. Whenever it TRIED FAVOURITES COOKERY BOOK. 121 begins to firm, edge a knife under it. Toss or turn it. When it is a light golden brown remove from pan, sift sugar over and fold like a scroll, or in 3 corners. Serve with cut lemon or orange marmalade. Plain Pancakes (2). J lb. Flour, 'i pint Milk, 1 Egg, Sugar to sprinkle✪ Plain Pancakes. Add- milk to flour gradually. When a smooth batter, add un- beaten yolk of egg. Mix well, and let stand a few hours before dinner. IVhen ready to cook pancakes whip white very stiffly ; add lightly to batter, and fry as usual. Squeeze lemon juice over, and serve. Pancakes (3). 1 breakfastcupful Flour, pinch of Salt, do. of Sugar, 3 Eggs (yolks and whites to be switched separately). Mix flour to a batter with milk ; add switched eggs, and drop into buttered frying-pan 2 or 3 spoonfuls at a time. If batter is allowed to stand for 1 hour at least, pancakes are lighter. Plantain Pudding:. Bake a custard in a pie-dish; when ready put away till cold. Turn out in a crystal and spread raspberry jam over it. Slice bananas over to cover and rei^eat process, spreading jatn and bananas alter- nately. When the dish is piled as high as required, whip cream✪ Plantain Pudding till it is very thick and pour over all. N.B. — It is necessary that rasp- berry jam is used, because no other brings out the flavour so well. Polish Pancakes (Nalesnikis). Take 4 eggs and beat them up very thoroughly with about f pint milk, 1 oz. butter that has been oiled, ^ a grated nutmeg, and about 6 lumps of sugar✪ Polish Pancakes (Nalesnikis) that have been rubbed on the outside of a lemon. Mix in sufficient flour — about 6 oz. — gradually, to make the whole to a very smooth batter. Melt a little butter in frying pan, and when it frizzles pour in some of the batter and sprinkle over a few currants. When pancake is fried, sift sugar over, roll up, and serve hot. Shrove Tuesday Pancakes. Beat 4 eggs thoroughly into 12 oz. of flour, a saltspoon of salt, ✪ Shrove Tuesday Pancakes